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logicpro7

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Sep 25, 2006
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Hi,
My daughter has a clamshell with 300mhz processor and upgraded memory 256mb + standard 32mb running osx10.2 and she has problems watching videos on youtube.

Now are there any settings that i can change to get this running for her? as she is considering selling it if nothing can be done :eek:

Is it a processor thing?
 
logicpro7 said:
Hi,
My daughter has a clamshell with 300mhz processor and upgraded memory 256mb + standard 32mb running osx10.2 and she has problems watching videos on youtube.

Now are there any settings that i can change to get this running for her? as she is considering selling it if nothing can be done :eek:

Is it a processor thing?
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It's a processor thing. My daughter has the same issue, but she has 544 MB of RAM. (32+512.)
 
Just to second, yes, it's definitely the processor. My mom had trouble watching YouTube clips on her 700Mhz G3 iBook (until we closed every single other program but Safari), so I can just imagine it on a 300Mhz G3.
 
Yup, it's definitely a processor issue. While the G3 is a workhorse, it wasn't intended for demanding processes like video and streaming. With the iBook listed in my sig I sometimes have problems with youtube also. Usually on longer movies. Like mentioned above, wait for the whole video to load, that makes a big difference. Of course if there are programs open that you don't need, get out of them.
 
Thanks for the advice guys!
I will try those tips later, but i suspect with the 300mhz processor it wont be able to cope still :(
 
Use firefox

Use firefox instead of Safari, Safari takes many resources and even in my G4 1.33 they play sluggish, but in Firefox they play perfect. I have a G3 366mhz and its fine in firefox. :apple:
 
Also a big part of this is that you only have 4mb of vram. Even with the 466 graphite clamshell and 8mb of vram, flash video streaming is a little annoying. Streaming wma's actually is better. It is sad but it may be that the clamshells cannot cope with "web 2.0" stuff.
 
shu82 said:
Also a big part of this is that you only have 4mb of vram. Even with the 466 graphite clamshell and 8mb of vram, flash video streaming is a little annoying. Streaming wma's actually is better. It is sad but it may be that the clamshells cannot cope with "web 2.0" stuff.
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It has nothing to do with VRAM. Flash video takes more main processor horsepower to decode than most other formats at the same resolution. As long as you have a fully accelerated video card (Anything other than Rage IIc in OS X 10.1.5 or later,) then VRAM doesn't make any difference for playing video. (Until you get to the VERY recent video cards that do video decoding onboard.)
 
I use my Clamshell as a main computer, and I think you need to upgrade the harddrive from 10GB to 160GB like what I did and it works without any lag.
 
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